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Cognitive Therapy An Overview

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In the past several years, cognitive therapy has emerged as one of the more powerful models of psychotherapy (Smith, 1982). There are two interactive reasons for its emergence and popularity. First, cognitive therapy has been demonstrated to be an efficacious model of treatment. Second, a number of practitioners, impressed by the available outcome studies, have learned more about cognitive therapy and have been impressed by the results in their own practice.

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Freeman, A. (1983). Cognitive Therapy An Overview. In: Freeman, A. (eds) Cognitive Therapy with Couples and Groups. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9736-7_1

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